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Mayor Daley will acknowledge tonight that his administration "totally screwed up" the transition to private control of the city's 36,000 parking meters and that some Chicagoans believe he has "put too much time into" the quest for Olympic gold.
With a $520 million shortfall that can only be filled by tax increases and spending cuts, three nights of public hearings on Daley's preliminary 2010 budget are expected to turn into giant gripe sessions before City Hall lowers the boom.
Congressional hearings on President Obama's health care plan are likely to look tame by comparison.
Nothing like an apology on parking meters to take the edge off the anger.
We'd like to point out to Fran that nowhere in this article, which gives a synopsis of Shortshanks' prepared speech, is there an apology. Nowhere. "[I/We] totally screwed up" is a lot different than "I'm sorry. I was wrong. I shouldn't have done it." and then making it right. Perhaps there's a real "I'm sorry" somewhere in the speech that Shortshanks is giving tonight, but we doubt it.
Now, Shortshanks. What about apologizing for jerking us around in contract negotiations, hiring J-Fed, appointing all the CPD exempts, jonesing for the Olympics, Hired Trucks, Meigs Field, Millennium Park, the Chicago Public Schools, the Monroe Street parking garage, unpaid furlough days for city employees...ad nauseum.
...too late. "Apology is only egotism wrong side out."
Labels: city politics, corruption
posted by SCC at 9:24 AM
63 Comments:
SCC: you missed the $elling of the $kyway. What gives this man the right to sell public property for 100 years? All of the ass-kissing alderthieves should be kicked out along with shanks.
Just go away Daley.
and Stroger. What about Stroger!
THIS GUY IS TRUELY MENTALLY UNBALANCED....
he is doing this for a future grang jury to have pity on him,he gone real soon!
can we have the olympics in bensenville--- we already own half the city and the runway may never be built because we are "broke" and can't afford the construction costs. can daley apologize for twenty years of poor judgment and criminal behavior that would make a drunk sailor on shore leave blush---- this is just another line of bullshit by the biggest shit slinger east of the mississippi river----- lord shortshanks ======>-------
100 bucks says he starts to cry...
Come September there will be a lot of unhappy people, a bunch of cars to be taken away, not quite sure where they are going or to whom, but they will be gone...Time to pull your car out of storage, maybe you better jump on the last day of cars for clunkers program.
Can I get some Elton John tickets for Gods sake?
Budget Hearings for the public are scheduled. Perhaps you can assist in putting out the info to the CPD and maybe a few can head over and ask about the contract. Everyone is entitled to speak for 3 minutes and must be registered.
Aug 25: South Shore Cultural Center,7059 S. South Shore Drive
Aug 26: Central West Regional Center, 2102 W. Ogden Avenue
Aug 27: Laughlin Falconer Elementary School, 3020 N. Lamon Avenue
All hearings begin at 7:00 p.m., with registration from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
This Pig Shit Irish Mayor is going to raise taxes and lay it off on the "greedy" police department.
Then not give us a raise......or retro.
There needs to be some sort of organized and legal job action taken.
Meigs Field: Why have an airport that might entice professional and executives to maintain a headquarters downtown when you can have Concerts sponsored by Charter One with Snoop Dog spewing oscenities while you wait in line to get into the Planetarium.
WHAT ELSE IS NEW? THE DALEY ADMINISTRATION HAS BEEN SCREWING UP THE CITY SINCE THE GREEDY-BOY TOOK OFFICE... HIGHEST TAXES, MURDER AND VIOLENT CRIME SKY-HIGH, WORST IN THE U.S. FOR WASTE AND CORRUPTION, PAY-TO-PLAY, NEPOTISM RUN WILD, UNION DISCONTENT, CONSTANT BLUNDERS IN POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENT MANAGEMENT, WORST PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM IN THE U.S, ON AND ON. REALLY, WHAT ELSE IS NEW?????
All this "apology" will accomplish is to set the foundation for the excuse of "there's no money for (decent) raises for the police as well as no money for (decent) retroactive pay for the police". 'Shanks will use this finely planned and choreographed boo-boo to stick it in our collective asses.
That prick is an evil genius, I tells ya!
Now go find a part time to make the nut on that Harley you just bought, chump!
I still think the single worse thing that Daley ever did was Jody Weis. If you look at it this way, a single decision that caused the de-policing of an entire city, the effect of this one single bum decision had the most impact across the board, it effected the most people for the worse in every neighborhood. Hired Trucks, nobody missed the money because nobody cared, Meigs, alot of folks that vote for Daley liked to hear Snoop Dog shout obscene oral sex references, Millenium Park, again nobody missed the money and its garners a crowd these days, CPS, well they've been intolerable for so long, anyone with any expectations of good education has either moved or gone to a private school, unpaid furlough days, lotsa of people are hurting in this economy so the vast majority of the people in the city who see 8 man water crews and city workers sitting around doing noting don't really give a shit about that and they think, yeh good,
Olympics, Parking Meters, and the De-policing, of those three big issues, De-policing is the worst.
Thanks Jody, when you go looking for your next job tell 'em, "Gee my decisions singlehandedly destroyed the fabric of a city," and hopefully you'll be able to add,"and caused the Mayor to lose his job."
Jody Weis--the Bubbleheaded Putz--next time Snoop Dog is in town, give him a good listen you megacranial, beedy eyed, bad example for how to lead good people in a hard job through bad times,
The little, arrogant, stuttering prick is feeling the pressure of the voters. He may be coming close to losing that ninth life that cats are alleged to have.
Or maybe the pressure he feels is coming from the Department of Justice?
Either way, there seems to be an awful lot of dissension being voiced by what is normally known as the silent majority. Maybe it is not too late to save the late, great City of Chicago!
Great! They screwed up. So how does that admission change anything? Will he resign?
Don't forget appointing others with no job experience just so they keep their mouths shut on all the daley crimes! Look at the ones with double pensions! Why did he appoint dana starks to another high paying position? dana you can talk now we have a 1/2 black 1/2 white man a president!
Who gives a shit if he says he's sorry? Does that get the money back? "I'm sorry" is fine when the guy bumps you walking through the mall. This shit needs to be punished by the rest of his life in prison enjoying that sweet prison love, all his worldly possessions sold off to pay his debts, his family in prison or on the streets and his name cursed for all time.
No breaks for Da Mayo! He can say he's sorry all he wants. Hitler use to tell the leaders of various countries in Europe that he was sorry for taking over other countries around them. Then a few months later he would take them over and tell the country next to them the same thing and so on and so on. Da Mayo is EVIL! Don;t trust him he reaches out with his right hand to make peace while he carries a dagger in his left to gut you. He is feeling the heat about the meters, Olympics, crime, ect. If his apology is accepted then he will take on another (country) project! NO BREAKS FOR DA EVIL MAYO!
I hope he and his cronies choke on the money they stole from us!
It nakes me even more angry when I hear this piece of shit say stuff like that. I hope he eventually dies in a slammer.
HE IS STILL BY FAR THE BEST MAYOR ANY CITY COULD HAVE, LIKE HIM OR NOT, YOU GOTTA LOVE HIM. FLIP.
hey scc, just fyi the nurse from illinois masonic hospital who was handcuffed by the moron in 019 was filed in federal court today. it names the officer as rodriguez either star 1912 or bt 1912. i hate to see officers sued for stupid shit, but this moron deserves this one. i know i wasnt there and there may be a different story... but if the story is as it reads your a dirtbag. nurses have very hard jobs just as we do. weather the nurse was acting like a bitch or not who are you to give them grief.. you are in their hospital.. this guy is pathetic if its true.
Hmmmm...
We detect a rotund rodent rotting in the wallboards...
42 extra-short needs a purgative and a colonic. Upwards of $5 billion dollars is hidden away but there is a $500 million dollar projected shortfall in the 2010 budget? We would be out on the curb trying to keep the vultures from picking through our belongings if our financial houses were in such disarray.
King shorty is lying. The money is there but he does not want to do what is right. Could he be setting the table to play the "Blame the Greedy, Selfish Police" game by purposely driving the city into bankruptcy?
It's a vicious and dirty thing to do but he can try to divorce the city from most fiduciary responsibilities to it's employees by demonstrating financial hardship of the corporate entity but all other kinds of stuff rears it's ugly head like bond ratings, etc. in addition to running afoul of state and federal law. (revisit Meigs Field destruction)
Why couldn't he have left CPD alone? It was more or less a self sustaining entity for years but he got greedy and didn't want to share. Remember when we used to be able to "bat for the cycle" back in the day? Male & female misd, felony, narcotics, night narc., whore, gun, domestic, vehicle impounds, traffic and whatever you caught working special...
The city was P.A.I.D but boo-hoo, too many coppers were making "TOO MUCH MONEY" as well. (control issue, how ya gonna control 'em when they're clearing base Lt's pay or better?)
Oh well...
On a side note, we still wonder about the whisper that 42 extra-short is mulling a long term lease of LSD? Now that the emperor has no clothes regarding the parking meter debacle, we can only hope that this latest scheme is DOA.
Remember, he and his ilk hate the Police because we actually ARE the guardians of the people and can see through his bullshit...
...Just our notion on where/when the nonsense will end short of Divine or federal (hah!) intervention or an uprising by a pissed off citizenry. Shortshank's actions are nothing if not TREASONOUS! Are traitors along with those who aid and abet still subject to hanging in this great land of ours?
Continue to sound the alarm and stay safe...
No doubt that there is more to this story. I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. That jagbag NEVER admits he is wrong.
Richie can yak all he wants, but how is he going to make this right? Thats what the people want ot hear.
The major, most useless waste of money on the city level is the Alder-persons . A useless band of rubber stamps for the Mayor.
How about he apologize for ruining our city?!?!??!?!? Doesn't he see what I see? I sure as hell see a run down, crappy ghetto that is completely ruined by his hands.
The Clearing neighborhood resembles Detroit. I'm surprised we have a 7 Eleven here let alone any businesses.
8/25/2009 10:27:00 AM
My fiance and I were just over there looking for a home. wtf? All the businesses and homes are GONE. It was so eerie that we are going to go back to film it. Some of the buildings looked like they were brand new. How the hell is this going to bring revenue... Daley's hand really reaches into the suburbs too.
You have to pay to park along 35th next to headquarters now, whats next the residential streets????????????
"'Thanks Jody, when you go looking for your next job tell 'em, "Gee my decisions singlehandedly destroyed the fabric of a city," and hopefully you'll be able to add,"and caused the Mayor to lose his job.'
8/25/2009 01:17:00 PM"
Well, when you look at it that way, what comes to mind is 'The Lord, (sure as fuck), Works In Mysterious Ways'.
Very well Mayor, we accept your resignation !
"...i know i wasnt there and there may be a different story..."
8/25/2009 05:15:00 PM
EXACTLY, SO STFU DUMMY!!!
Anonymous said...
Come September there will be a lot of unhappy people, a bunch of cars to be taken away, not quite sure where they are going or to whom, but they will be gone...Time to pull your car out of storage, maybe you better jump on the last day of cars for clunkers program.
8/25/2009 11:15:00 AM
really does that mean frank wilson (My wife got me this big paying job then I divorced her)! Why does he have a new police spec squad? Would be better used in the districts!
Daley fucks us and the fop.what's new
I thought he was talking about bubblehead's promotion to captain. My bad.
"...i know i wasnt there and there may be a different story... but if the story is as it reads your a dirtbag. nurses have very hard jobs just as we do. weather the nurse was acting like a bitch or not who are you to give them grief.. you are in their hospital..
8/25/2009 05:15:00 PM
Hard job or not, they are required to follow the law...
As stated here, she REFUSED to do a blood draw on a DUI patient, AS REQUIRED BY LAW, and after repeated requests by the arresting officer.
As stated here, she admitted to refusing to do the blood draw because she called the hospital legal office and they had not gotten back to her, (not legal grounds to REFUSE).
As stated here, she was arrested for obstructing a lawful police investigation. She DID obstruct.
As stated here, the nurse was released by a ranking department exempt, (street deputy?), who I blame for her suit.
Did the officer overstep his legal bounds... I don't think so.
Oh, and by the way. THEIR hospital requires numerous City of Chicago & State of Illinois licenses in order to operate legally, which, arguably, makes it OUR hospital.
And finally, what does the weather have to do with any of this???
Apology NOT accepted, Please resign (and take JPUD with you)!!!
If NYPD can get a fair contract in this "recession" as Daley keeps falling back on then the CPD should get a fair contract. The City should stop being so concerned about changes to our disciplinary policy(and drug/alcohol policy..news flash;one is already in place) and start hashing out fair compensation for this City's Police officers. Under the Daley administration its obvious the Police are second class citizens in Daley's eyes. It was good to see that down in at South Shore today other citizens feel the same way that most of the CPD feels.
Daley is as stupid as ha looks. What everyone is mad about is that you sold city asset and it cost is money. The price to park skyrocketed. This guy is just so arrogant.
Face it this ship is sinking grap what you can and look out for yourself. Dont risk anything for slum junkies or bosses looking to make the next promotion.
J-FED WAS RIGHT NEXTS TOO SHORT PRICKY THE WHOLE MEETING LIKE A GOOD LAP DOG SHOULD BE.
DONT WORRY NEXT ELECTION SHOULD BE AN ALL OUT WAR.
BUT WHO WILL RUN AGAINST DALEY ALL THE UNIONS SHOULD BE WORKING ON THIS RIGHT NOW!!! INCLUDING R LOVEABLE GUYS AT THE FOP HALL. EVEN THOU IT IS LIKELY THEY WILL ALL BE VOTED OUT THEY SHOULD BE THINKING BIG BABY!
IF THEY DONT EXPECT MORE UNION JOB TO GO TO PRIVATE CONTRACTERS.
MORE UNPAID DAYS 4 EXEMPTS.
A CUT IN MEDICAL.
AND HIRING FREEZES LASTING YEARS!!!
SO IS THE FOP 1 OF THE BIG BOYS OR ARE WE GOING TO BE LIKE THE DISPATCHER UNION?
he takes responsibility.....and what ? He says he does, but what's the penalty for fucking up ?? Anyone else would be fired and possibly in jail. But not shortshanks. He takes responsibility ...then resign asshole.
he fucked up and we have to pay for it. thanks asshat !
"With no obvious untapped sources of revenue, Civic Federation President Laurence Msall has warned that city government will be "forced to re-invent itself in the way it delivers services and eliminates services not critical."
Just a few hints to make some dough.
Charge suburbanites a fee to use the beaches, all the suburbs do this.
Charge suburbanites more to launch their boats, charge them more to moor their boats. Most of the boats in Chicago's Harbors are from Wilmette, Kenilworth and other upscale suburbs.
Enact a fee for tour buses bringing in charters to the city. Major cities in Europe require a tour bus operators to secure a pass prior to them letting their passengers off. The bus opeartors pass the fee along to the tour chartering company. FAilure to have a pass results in a huge fine and potential loss of license. I guess shortshanks never paid attention on his trips to Europe.
Open up hanggun registration.
Start collecting some of the I Bonds that were issued, and BFW's issued.
So, here are a few tips to make a few bucks, It took me about 10 minutes to figure out and I'm just a high school educated patrolman. Imagine what someone with a economics degree could figure out.
How about the Corporation Counsel actually fining someone and collecting the fine? I guess you would have to argue a case at some point.
Why doesn't the FOP organize a picket at these hearings?
I've seldom seen anything that gave me such a strong feeling of "I hope a big truck backs into this thing and knocks it over" than those new black parking machines -- unless it's those inhuman-looking red-light camera trees, or the Euro-style glass bus-stop boxes obstructing the sidewalks, or the otherwise unemployable decked out in green city vests, portable computers, and ticket books, throwing their weight around...
Welcome to Daley's Hell. An oppressive yet dangerous, oversurveilled yet underpoliced nightmare. Can't catch some maniac banging an AK all over the place, but can fuss over the parking stub on a Vespa scooter...
...while the "massage parlors" set up shop all over, next to the "payday loan" sheisters and the ring-tone emporiums...
A chrome-and-glass, 100-story shithouse is still a shithouse. Yeah, that means you, Daley, as well as your asshole buddies like Helmut Jahn and his ilk.
What good is the "Bean" if you get stomped to death in front of it by a "wilding" cohort from the West Side?
"i know i wasnt there and there may be a different story... but if the story is as it reads your a dirtbag. nurses have very hard jobs just as we do. weather the nurse was acting like a bitch or not who are you to give them grief.. you are in their hospital."
STFU!! WHO ELECTED YOU ARBITER OF POLICE ACTIONS YOU HAVE ZERO 1ST HAND KNOWLEDGE OF?
HAVING DEALT W/ NURSES @ ILLINOIS MORONIC, I'VE FOUND A DISPROPORTIONATE OF THEM TO BE UNCOOPERATIVE,CONFRONTATIONAL MEDDLESOME & ARROGANT BEYOND REPROACH. I RESERVE JUDGMENT ON THE OFFICER & HOPE HE'S FULLY EXONERATED. PERHAPS, YOU CAN PULL YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR HINDQUARTERS & DO THE SAME!
Let see we got 10,000 coppers can all of us convince 5 people to vote for the other guy ?
Shortshanks. Typical narcissist. He made no apology. None whatsoever.
Instead of the heralded, expected apology, he made fun of the television media in an attempt to deflect criticism from his parking meter blunder. He defended the blunder as a good decision, however, he blamed unknown others in his administration for not mandating a 6 month transition period as part of the deal.
In other words, he defended the deal, but thought the ramrod in our asses should have been applied in a slower fashion. He's glad he fucked us, he just wishes he had fucked us slower.
Aug 25: South Shore Cultural Center,7059 S. South Shore Drive
Aug 26: Central West Regional Center, 2102 W. Ogden Avenue
Aug 27: Laughlin Falconer Elementary School, 3020 N. Lamon Avenue
Where are the locations for the tax paying citizens?
would u all rather have jesse jackson or rev pleger or any other random "minister" become y our next mayor? cause thats whats gunna happen.than everyones gunna wish daley was back.watch.
dilligaf said...
Aug 25: South Shore Cultural Center,7059 S. South Shore Drive
Aug 26: Central West Regional Center, 2102 W. Ogden Avenue
Aug 27: Laughlin Falconer Elementary School, 3020 N. Lamon Avenue
Where are the locations for the tax paying citizens?
8/26/2009 03:18:00 AM
all in shit neighborhoods? guess he does not want white folks to scream at the "king of corruption"! COWARD!
And will the aldermen who voted in favor of this make a public apology as well?
Where the hell is the Federal Government. This is just plain and simple "OUT OF CONTROL!"
Wait for it....Wait for it....Wait for it....Fuck...never even came close to taking any responsibility for his actions...Great time to laugh it off asshole. People are sick and tired of your shit...Time For A Revolution Chicago....
Excuse me, but 'South Shore Cultural Center' is NOT a 'shit neighborhood. Maybe you could take a ride out that way and bravely take on Shortshanks and his lapdog WEISel and see for yourself.
"would u all rather have jesse jackson or rev pleger or any other random "minister" become y our next mayor? cause thats whats gunna happen.than everyones gunna wish daley was back.watch.
8/26/2009 07:10:00 AM"
Brilliant thinking.
For a retard.
TERM LIMITS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aug 25: South Shore Cultural Center,7059 S. South Shore Drive
Aug 26: Central West Regional Center, 2102 W. Ogden Avenue
Aug 27: Laughlin Falconer Elementary School, 3020 N. Lamon Avenue
Where are the locations for the tax paying citizens?
8/26/2009 03:18:00 AM
Totally agree. For NW siders...3020 N. Lamon? That's at the edge of the west side, you could jam in all the mexican illegals and their offspring who are beneficiaries of all the new schools around there.
As stated here, she REFUSED to do a blood draw on a DUI patient, AS REQUIRED BY LAW, and after repeated requests by the arresting officer.
Prob one of the few times...if not one of the best times.....to call a
SEARGENT.
If the South Shore Cultural Center is in the Jackson Park Highlands section of South Shore, then maybe it isn't a "shit neighborhood". Jesse Jackson lives there, so it near him? :)
Excluding the Jesse part, South Shore has been a "shit neighborhood" for years.
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